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Christy Doran: New Bag, New Tricks
by Ian Patterson
The opening concert at the 14th Bray Jazz Festival in May, just half an hour outside Dublin in County Wicklow, was something of a homecoming gig for Irish guitarist Christy Doran and his quartet New Bag. Doran was born 63 years ago, just a few short miles down the road from Bray, in Greystones, though at ...
Motown Celebrates Its Musical Legends In The 2013 Detroit Jazz Fest
On April 23, 2013, the Producers of the world-renowned Detroit Jazz Festival announced what promises to be another outstanding lineup of nationally and internationally renowned artists in addition to the generations of Detroit players who put the city on the map as one of the historically significant centers for the music. Artistic Director Chris Collins showed ...
Vein feat. Dave Liebman: Lemuria Live
by AAJ Italy Staff
Registrato live in due giorni successivi del settembre 2011, a Parigi e Colonia, questo CD vede di scena Vein, trio di musicisti di Basilea, che ospita Dave Liebman, vero monumento del sax capace di esibirsi sempre ai massimi livelli d'espressività e perciò di trasformare ogni performance in un piccolo capolavoro, specie dal vivo. E infatti anche ...
Quest: Circular Dreaming
by AAJ Italy Staff
Tra i tanti (troppi?) tributi, omaggi e onori al genio di Miles Davis, questo firmato dai Quest del sassofonista Dave Liebman, è certamente uno dei più riusciti nel cogliere lo spirito visionario e creativo di un genio assoluto e tradurlo secondo canoni che ne esaltano virtù e prospettive. Come ricorda nelle note di copertina il pianista ...
Dave Liebman - Lewis Porter: Surreality
by AAJ Italy Staff
Pur richiamando di volta in volta lo spirito e alcuni particolari inconfondibili delle varie personalità a cui tributa degli omaggi, questo disco spicca per una propria unicità e riconoscibilità nel suono e nella personalità musicale che esprime. Sarà forse per la particolarità di questa mescolanza agrodolce tra la chitarra acide e sporca di Ribot con il ...
GuitarNow! 2013, Day Two: Ottawa, Canada, May 4, 2013
by John Kelman
First Annual GuitarNow! Festival, Day TwoKailash Mital TheatreCarleton UniversityOttawa, CanadaMay 4, 2013When local guitarist Roddy Ellias--the recipient, that very week, of one of the Jazz Journalist Association's Jazz Hero awards for 2013 (the only Canadian on the list)--created the concept of the first annual GuitarNow! Festival with Carleton University, ...
Take Five With Mike Davis
by AAJ Staff
Meet Mike Davis:Mike Davis has lived several distinct musical lives. He has been a student, a serious student of performance and of theory and of composition and of art. He has been a gig warrior, playing multiple shows in multiple styles on different instruments at different venues with different bands on the same day ...
Dave Liebman / Andy Emler Trio: Helsinki, Finland, April 24, 2013
by Anthony Shaw
Dave Liebman with the Andy Emler TrioApril Jazz FestivalLouhisaliTapiolaHelsinki, FinlandApril 24, 2013 Saxophonist Dave Liebman is known to have played the length and breadth of the jazz world, on both sides of the Atlantic, in both hemispheres, and, having done so for nearly 50 years, it ...
Inside the 5th NEA Jazz Masters Awards
by Dan Morgenstern
The 32nd class of National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters was formally inducted on January 14, 2013. Numbering just four, this was the smallest class since the threesome of 2003. The following year, new NEA Chairman Dana Gioia upped the ante to six and added the new category of the A. B. Spellman Jazz Advocacy ...
Vossa Jazz 2013
by John Kelman
Vossa JazzOslo, NorwayMarch 22-24, 2013Every festival hopes to have a signature, that certain something that differentiates it from all the rest and makes it a desired destination, but few have as many things going for it as the annual Vossa Jazz Festival, now in its 40th year. It certainly may seem ...
